P143 CEEFAX 1 143 Mon 03 Jan 23:17/10 . :. The following pages feature . news stories from BBC . Monitoring, based in Cavjrsham near Reading. BBC Monitoring selects and translates reports from TV, radio, news agencies and Prius from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. . . .: For more information on one :. . of the world's largest media monitoring bodies, visit our Web site: http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk 1/6 Extra: More world news coverage 142 Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Mon 03 Jan 23:17/34 US HOSTAGE TELLS OF HIJACK ORDEAL A Californian woman has said she thought her time had come when hijackers on the Indian Airlines jet in Afghanistan asked her to spell coffin. "'hen the bad guys approached me and asked "What do you call the box to keep a body?" I thought it was meant for me," Jeanne Moore told PSI news agency. But the coffin was intended for the remains of a Kashmiri leader demanded bz the gunmen in exchange for hostages. Mrs Moore was the only US hostage on the plane during the eight-day ordeal. 2/6 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Mon 03 Jan 23:15/35 ROUGH JUSTICE FOR Y2K-HIT PRISONERS Italian jail-birds were facing the prospect of an extra 100 years inside after Millennium Bug problems hit computetisjd records in Naples. Some had had their trial dates pushed ahead by 100 years, othjts should have been released in 1900, while some would have to wait until 2099 to get out. The chief magistrate ordered staff to get out paper and pens to cope with all urgent cases, the ANSA agency reported. But Y2K bosses in Rome dismissed the incident as just a local difficulty. 3/6 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Mon 03 Jan 23:16/00 NATIONAL MOURNING DECLARED IN SPAIN A royal decree has declared sjvjn days of national mourning following the death of King Juan Carlos' mother Dona Maria de lat Mercedes dj Borbon. Flags will fly at half mast on public buildings in honour of the countess, who is dui to bj buried on Tuesday. Spanish sources said the decree ordered that funeral rites of the king's mothjt would be those of a queen of Spain. Dona Maria was a well-known aficionado of bull-fighting, and spent the Franco years exiled in Paris, Rome and Estoril 4/6 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticket 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Mon 03 Jan 23:16/25 CHINESE POLICEMAN FALLS FOUL OF FORTUNE A police officer working at a prison in southern China has been arrested after he allowed a fortune-telling inmate to spell out what the future had in store. The man permitted the prisoner to leave his cell in Hainan to conduct a series of rituals nearby, press reports said. Together with another freed inmate, the fortune-teller then engaged in sjvetal "superstitious activities" at a temple. Sometime later, suspicious guards organized a search, but by then Fate had decreed that the two had escaped. 5/6 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu